[SGVLUG] RE: [OT] fuel prices and the dollar (was interesting, border inspection issues)

[Dan Borne]

According to the German Federal Law website (It is in
German)<http://bundesrecht.juris.de/energiestg/__2.html#>,
Germans are to pay 65.45 Euro-Cents per litre (eg. 3.84453 USD per US
Gallon) in taxes for conventional unleaded petrol, plus Value Added Tax
(19%) on the fuel itself and the Fuel Tax. With the maths above, Germans pay
8.22 USD for a US Gallon of gas, of which 3.84 is a fuel tax. With out all
of the taxes, I think that it is basically the same cost.

Just my two pence.

2008/5/13 Emerson, Tom (*IC) <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com>:

> > -----Original Message----- Of Chris Louden
> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Tom Emerson
> > <osnut at pacbell.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > the price of gasoline -- 1.40+ EURO per LITRE -- at the
> > exchange rate
> > > we got (something slightly worse than $1.60 per euro), this
> > works out
> > > to about $9/gallon ...
> >
> > So basically you are confirming that the price of gas really
> > isn't high, but that the US dollar has lost its value.
> > >
>
> A little of both -- if the dollar and Euro were on par at 1:1, this
> still works out to $6/gallon.  I'm not sure, but I think I heard my
> friend say that the taxes on gasoline worked out to nearly 80 (euro)
> cents per litre (i.e., 3.20/gallon)
>
> Tom
>
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